As President Lee Jae-myung asked for a review of "free distribution of sanitary pads," related stocks were rising on the 21st.

President Lee Jae-myung speaks by phone with Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on the 20th. /Courtesy of News1

As of 9:42 a.m. that day, Monalisa shares on the main bourse were up 7.69% (170 won) from the previous trading day at 2,380 won. KleanNara shares were also up 2.58% (50 won) from the day before at 1,985 won.

Monalisa and KleanNara are companies that produce sanitary products such as sanitary pads.

Earlier, President Lee Jae-myung said at a Cabinet meeting held on the 20th, "We are looking to study a plan to make sanitary pads with very basic quality at low cost and distribute them for free."

Lee said, "It seems Korea's sanitary pads are nearly 40% more expensive than those overseas; if we also make cheap ones and sell them, then poor people will be able to use them, right?"

Lee also directed Won Min-kyong, Minister of Gender Equality and Family, to "consider even commissioning production and distributing them for free to certain recipients."

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